The best programs for downloading music and video

Long ago, Napster was the most famous P2P (peer-to-peer) software to download MP3. This allowed that music would spread in an impressive manner, but without the owners of the rights of those songs were able to obtain a penny of these download.

This obviously angered many, and as everyone knows, the party did not last long, thanks to Metallica and the RIAA(Recording Industry Association of America), the Napster makers were arrested, then the site was purchased by another company and then finished disappearing.

And your users? To where they migrated? That program began to use? Who carries the P2P flag today?

Today the heirs of Napster are:

Torrent

Unlike other programs, those who use BitTorrent transfer protocol does not necessarily need a network. This is due to the fact that for a transfer, the only thing you should do is create a “torrent” file with information about the file and send the coordinates of the computer.

Because of the ease of distribution provided by the BitTorrent protocol, other websites were created in order to facilitate the exchange of files through a “stock” file “torrent”.

When Limewire was shut down because of legal problems, many users felt worried, but fortunately, emerged from the ashes alternatives such as LimeWire Pirate Edition and WireShare, the latter being one of the few heirs of LimeWire that is still in development and use.

Wireshare is a lightweight software, and simple to use, without complicated configurations, showing only a small guide with some questions on his first run. The interface is simple and shows their options well distributed, without offering any difficulty for the user.

To find what you are looking for, you need only enter the name or a keyword that identifies it clearly. From this point, will be displayed on the screen the most reliable and faster results. Then it only remains select what you want and start downloading.

Inspired by eDonkey, the application was developed including the best of his inspiration and trying to improve its defects and problems. The biggest difference of Emule regarding other programs of the same type is the amount of results returned in their searches.

The large amount of their search results is due to the fact that eMule can be freely connected to dozens of networks of exchange, generating more results than other programs. Therefore, users who are always seeking rare content prefer Emule.

Although it is the newest of the applications mentioned in this article, Ares has nothing to envy to any other app of its kind. It is a very thin software, and are able to find lots of music files and video, besides having a good download speed.

Shareaza is one of the exchange programs most popular files today. Through Shareaza you can download the files you want, such as music, videos, photos, ebooks, etc. One of the strengths of the program is that it uses the power of different P2P networks so you can enjoy a good speed when downloading your files without the need to wait several hours to download a video.

The application has an integrated system to prevent corrupt or incomplete download files. This means that it will repair damaged files before it finishes downloading. Besides, with the program’s own network, Gnutella 2, you’ll find files with higher chances of successful outcomes. You can even narrow down your search using the filters of the application; music, videos, books, images, software, file, source-code, presentations and torrents files.

Each time a file is downloaded, consider analyze it manually with a good antivirus software.

An excellent idea that can save us many headaches is check the file extension. Files with extensions .com, .scr and .exe in most cases, unless you are downloading software, are indicative of malicious code, so we must be extremely cautious handling.

Another of the most important points to consider are the copyright. That is why we must always ensure that the materials we are downloading is completely free and open, and that has no restriction for download, since we could be violating one or more laws, depending on the country where they dwell.